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This document shows the layout of
HIGHER the examination and provides some
Sample SCHOOL sample questions for each of the
Questions CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION
sections.
English Standard
Paper 2 — Modules
General • Reading time – 5 minutes
Instructions • Working time – 2 hours
• Write using black pen
Total marks: Section I – 20 marks (pages 3–4)
60 • Attempt Question 1
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section II – 20 marks (pages 5–6)
• Attempt Question 2
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
Section III – 20 marks (pages 7–9)
• Attempt Question 3
• Allow about 40 minutes for this section
The first HSC examination for the new English Standard Stage 6 syllabus will be held
in 2019.
STDThe first HSC examination for the new English Standard Stage 6 syllabus will be held in
2019.
The English Standard examination specifications can be found in the Assessment and
Reporting in English Standard Stage 6 document.
Questions will require candidates to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and skills
developed through studying the course. The Year 11 course is assumed knowledge for the
Year 12 course.
There is no expectation that all of the Year 12 content will be examined each year. The
examination will test a representative sample of the Year 12 content in any given year.
The following sample questions provide examples of some questions that may be found in
HSC examinations for English Standard Paper 2. Each question has been mapped to show
how the sample question relates to syllabus outcomes and content.
Marking guidelines for Sections I, II and III are provided. The marking guidelines indicate
the criteria associated with each mark range. In the examination, students will record their
answers to each section in separate writing booklets.
The sample questions, annotations and marking guidelines provide teachers and students
with guidance as to the types of questions to expect and how they may be marked. They
are not intended to be prescriptive.
Note:
• Comments in coloured boxes are annotations for the purpose of providing guidance for
future examinations.
STD –2– STDThere will be one
question which will
Section I — Module A: Language, Identity and Culture require a sustained
response.
20 marks
Attempt Question 1
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
These questions are examples of the types of questions that may be asked in Section I.
This is NOT a sample paper.
Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● demonstrate understanding of how ideas about language, identity and culture are
expressed through texts
● demonstrate understanding of how language is used to shape meaning about
individuals and/or cultural groups
● organise, develop and express your ideas using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
Example A (20 marks)
Analyse how language is used in your prescribed text to express community identity.
Example A is a generic question for all prescribed texts.
Example B (20 marks)
Explain how a text’s form contributes to the way that it captures unique cultural perspectives.
In your response, make close reference to your prescribed text.
Example B is specific to the form of the prescribed text.
Example C (20 marks)
Explain how sound and music contribute to the representation of identity and culture in
One Night the Moon.
Example C is specific to the prescribed text.
STD –3– STDThe prescribed texts for Section I are:
• Prose Fiction – Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
* The Drover’s Wife
* The Union Buries Its Dead
* Shooting the Moon
* Our Pipes
* The Loaded Dog
– Andrea Levy, Small Island
• Poetry – Adam Aitken, Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill (eds),
Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
The prescribed poems are:
* Merlinda Bobis, This is where it begins
* Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Home
* Ouyang Yu, New Accents
* Vuong Pham, Mother
* Jaya Savige, Circular Breathing
* Maureen Ten (Ten Ch’in Ü), Translucent Jade
– Ali Cobby Eckermann, Inside my Mother
The prescribed poems are:
* Trance
* Unearth
* Oombulgarri
* Eyes
* Leaves
* Key
• Drama – Ray Lawler, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
– Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
– Alana Valentine, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
• Nonfiction –
Alice Pung, Unpolished Gem
• Film – Rachel Perkins, One Night the Moon
– Rob Sitch, The Castle
• Media –
Janet Merewether, Reindeer in my Saami Heart
STD –4– STDThere will be one
question which will
Section II — Module B: Close Study of Literature require a sustained
response.
20 marks
Attempt Question 2
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
These questions are examples of the types of questions that may be asked in Section II. This
is NOT a sample paper.
Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● demonstrate understanding of a text’s distinctive qualities and how these shape
meaning
● organise, develop and express ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose
and form
Example A (20 marks)
Byron Bay: Winter
Stimulus material
When far off, I turn. The sun brings, may include quotes,
because it’s perfect warmth, statements and
the feeling that I wear great wings extracts from texts.
while stepping along the earth.
Use these lines of poetry as the starting point for an analysis of how Robert Gray creatively
engages with everyday experiences.
In your response, make close reference to ‘Byron Bay: Winter’ and at least ONE other poem
by Robert Gray set for study.
Example A is specific to a prescribed text.
Example B (20 marks)
To what extent does your prescribed text use dramatic conflict to engage audiences with its
key ideas?
Example B is specific to the form of the prescribed text, in this case drama.
Example C (20 marks)
Effective fiction uses the narrative voice to engage the reader’s emotions and intellect. To what
extent is this true of your prescribed text?
Example C is specific to the form of the prescribed text, in this case fiction.
STD –5– STDThe prescribed texts for Section II are:
• Prose Fiction – M T Anderson, Feed
– Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Poetry –
Robert Gray, Coast Road
The prescribed poems are:
* Journey, the North Coast
* Flames and Dangling Wire
* Harbour Dusk
* Byron Bay: Winter
* Description of a Walk
* 24 Poems
– Oodgeroo Noonuccal
The prescribed poems are:
* The Past
* China . . . Woman
* Reed Flute Cave
* Entombed Warriors
* Visit to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
* Sunrise on Huampu River
* A Lake Within a Lake
• Drama –
Scott Rankin, Namatjira from Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji –
Two plays by Scott Rankin
– William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Nonfiction – Anna Funder, Stasiland
• Film – Peter Weir, The Truman Show
• Media – Simon Nasht, Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History
STD –6– STDThere will be one question
which may contain up to two
Section III — Module C: The Craft of Writing parts. The question will require
an imaginative, discursive,
20 marks persuasive, informative or
Attempt Question 3 reflective response.
Allow about 40 minutes for this section
These questions are examples of the types of questions that may be asked in Section III.
There are more examples of the types of questions (with modifications) that may be asked
in this section in the Advanced sample questions.
Your answer will be assessed on how well you:
● craft language to address the demands of the question
● use language appropriate to audience, purpose and form to shape meaning
The following examples have TWO parts. For examples of the types of questions that may
be asked with ONE part see the Advanced sample questions.
Students must read all parts of the question before they begin.
Example A (20 marks)
Above us, the Milky Way is a slash of sheer silver gossamer, studded with
diamonds. The stars of other constellations are in sharp focus, stretching far
out into the heavens. Two trains blaze past in the night, sirens and headlights
blaring as the signal bells ring on the road next to us. They pierce the total
silence and wake some of the campers. There is quiet talking, singing. The
pitch-dark explodes again a little later to the headlights of a semitrailer
roaring past on the track, its load shaking with corrugations. Then perfect
quiet settles until dawn.
Ros Moriarty
Listening to Country
(a) Describe how the writer creates a mood or atmosphere in this text. In your 5
response make reference to at least ONE language device or stylistic feature.
(b) Write the next part of the narrative where the mood or atmosphere in the text is 15
changed because of a surprising or unexpected event.
Section III continues on page 8
STD –7– STDExample B (20 marks)
(a) I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. . . 12
John Masefield, Sea Fever
OR
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on.
Sir Winston Churchill
Use ONE of the lines above as a stimulus for the opening of an imaginative,
discursive or persuasive piece of writing. In your piece of writing incorporate at
least ONE example of figurative language that you have learned about through
your study of the prescribed texts for Module C.
(b) Explain how your writing in part (a) was influenced by what you have learned 8
about figurative language through the study of your prescribed texts for
Module C.
Example C (20 marks)
(a) 10
Questions in this
section may or may
not require reference
to Module C
prescribed text.
Use the image above to write creatively about a character’s response to entering
this unfamiliar setting for the first time.
Students are not expected to construct a complete narrative. They may
choose to craft the opening, ending, a significant event, a fragment or a
particular point of tension.
(b) Assess how effectively you evoked your character’s response to this experience, 10
making detailed reference to your use of a range of language devices and
stylistic features.
STD –8– STDThe prescribed texts for Section III are:
• Prose Fiction – Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian
– Peter Carey, Report on the Shadow Industry
– Catherine Cole, Home
– Stephen King, Crouch End
– Melissa Lucashenko, Dreamers
• Nonfiction – Helen
Garner, Dear Mrs Dunkley
– George Orwell, The Sporting Spirit
– Sylvia Plath, A Comparison
– Sarah Vowell, What He Said There
• Speeches –
Linda Burney, First speech to the House of Representatives as
Member for Barton
– Steve Jobs, How to Live Before You Die
– Paul Keating, Funeral Service of The Unknown Australian Soldier
J K Rowling, The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of
–
Imagination
• Poetry –
Carol Chan, Popcorn
– Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
– Les Murray, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
Judith Wright, The Surfer
–
• Performance
– Luka Lesson, May your pen grace the page
Poetry
End of sample questions
STD –9– STD
© 2017 NSW Education Standards AuthorityEnglish Standard — Paper 2
Sample Questions Marking Guidelines
Section I — Module A: Language, Identity and Culture
These guidelines are generic and will need to be adjusted for specific questions.
Criteria Marks
• Analyses effectively how ideas about language, identity and culture are
expressed through texts
• Presents an effective response based on relevant, detailed textual
17–20
knowledge
• Organises, develops and expresses ideas effectively using language
appropriate to audience, purpose and form
• Analyses competently how ideas about language, identity and culture are
expressed through texts
• Presents a competent response based on relevant, sound textual knowledge 13–16
• Organises, develops and expresses ideas competently using language
appropriate to audience, purpose and form
• Analyses adequately how ideas about language, identity and culture are
expressed through texts
• Presents a response based on relevant, adequate textual knowledge 9–12
• Expresses ideas adequately using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
• Describes aspects of the text with some reference to language, identity and
culture
5–8
• Presents a response based on some textual knowledge
• Attempts to organise a response using basic language
• Attempts to describe aspects of the text
• Attempts to reference textual knowledge 1–4
• Attempts to organise a response in a limited way
–1–NESA 2018 HSC English Standard — Paper 2 Sample Questions Marking Guidelines
Section II — Module B: Close Study of Literature
These guidelines are generic and will need to be adjusted for specific questions.
Criteria Marks
• Demonstrates an informed understanding of a text’s distinctive qualities
and how they shape meaning
• Presents an effective personal response based on relevant, detailed textual
17–20
knowledge
• Organises, develops and expresses ideas effectively using language
appropriate to audience, purpose and form
• Demonstrates a developed understanding of a text’s distinctive qualities
and how they shape meaning
• Presents a competent personal response based on relevant, detailed textual
13–16
knowledge
• Organises, develops and expresses ideas competently using language
appropriate to audience, purpose and form
• Demonstrates an adequate understanding of a text’s qualities and how they
shape meaning
• Presents an adequate personal response based on relevant textual
9–12
knowledge
• Organises ideas adequately, using language appropriate to audience,
purpose and form
• Describes some aspects of a text
• Attempts a response based on some textual knowledge 5–8
• Attempts to organise some ideas
• Describes simple aspects of a text
1–4
• Attempts to organise a response
–2–NESA 2018 HSC English Standard — Paper 2 Sample Questions Marking Guidelines
Section III — Module C: The Craft of Writing
Example A (a)
Criteria Marks
• Provides a considered and detailed description of how the writer has
created a mood or atmosphere
• Describes the effect of a language device or stylistic feature for a 5
particular purpose
• Demonstrates effective control of language
• Provides a description of how the writer has created a mood or atmosphere
• Describes a language device or stylistic feature 3–4
• Demonstrates sound control of language
• Recounts features of how the writer has created a mood or atmosphere
2
• Demonstrates limited control of language
• Provides some relevant information about the text 1
Example A (b)
Criteria Marks
• Composes an engaging piece of writing that effectively responds to the
question
• Crafts language effectively to convey a mood or atmosphere appropriate to
13–15
the question
• Demonstrates effective control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a competent piece of writing that responds to the question
• Crafts language competently to convey a mood or atmosphere appropriate
to the question 10–12
• Demonstrates competent control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that responds to the question adequately
• Uses language adequately to convey a mood or atmosphere appropriate to
the question 7–9
• Demonstrates adequate control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that attempts to respond to the question
• Uses limited language to convey a mood or atmosphere 4–6
• Demonstrates limited control of language and structure
• Attempts to compose a piece of writing
1–3
• Attempts to control language
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Example B (a)
Criteria Marks
• Composes an engaging piece of writing that effectively responds to the
question
• Uses figurative language to effectively convey ideas 10–12
• Demonstrates effective control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a competent piece of writing that responds to the question
• Uses figurative language competently to convey ideas
7–9
• Demonstrates competent control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that responds to the question adequately
• Uses figurative language adequately to convey ideas
4–6
• Demonstrates adequate control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that has some relevance to the question
1–3
• Demonstrates limited control of language
Example B (b)
Criteria Marks
• Provides a detailed explanation of what they have learned about figurative
language through their study of their prescribed texts
• Provides a detailed explanation of how they have used language devices or 7–8
stylistic features for a particular purpose
• Demonstrates effective control of evaluative language
• Provides some explanation of what they have learned about figurative
language through their study of their prescribed texts
• Provides some explanation of how they have used language devices or 5–6
stylistic features
• Demonstrates sound control of evaluative language
• Provides a description or recount of what they have learned about
figurative language through their study of a prescribed text(s)
3–4
• Provides a description or recount of how they have used a language
• Demonstrates variable control of evaluative language
• Provides some relevant information about their writing 1–2
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Example C (a)
Criteria Marks
• Composes an engaging piece of writing that effectively responds to the
question
• Uses a range of language devices or stylistic features effectively to convey
9–10
an experience
• Demonstrates effective control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes an engaging piece of writing that responds to the question
• Uses language devices or stylistic features to competently convey an
experience 7–8
• Demonstrates sound control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that responds to the question adequately
• Uses some descriptive language to convey an experience
5–6
• Demonstrates variable control of language and structure appropriate to
audience, purpose, context and selected form
• Composes a piece of writing that attempts to convey an experience
3–4
• Demonstrates limited control of language
• Attempts to compose a piece of writing that has some relevance to the
1–2
question
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Example C (b)
Criteria Marks
• Provides a detailed appraisal of the effectiveness of their own writing in
addressing the requirements of the question
• Effectively assesses the use of a range of language devices or stylistic 9–10
features for a particular purpose
• Demonstrates effective control of evaluative language
• Appraises the effectiveness of their own writing in addressing the
requirements of the question
• Assesses the effect of using a language device or stylistic feature for a 7–8
particular purpose
• Demonstrates sound control of evaluative language
• Explains features of their own writing in addressing the requirements of
the question
• Describes the effect of using a language device and/or stylistic feature for 5–6
a particular purpose
• Demonstrates variable control of evaluative language
• Describes how their own writing addresses the requirements of the
question
3–4
• Describes the use of language
• Demonstrates limited control of language
• Provides some relevant information about their writing 1–2
–6–NESA HSC English Standard — Papers 2 Sample Questions Marking Guidelines
HSC English Standard — Paper 2
Sample Questions Mapping Grid
Section I
Question Marks Content Syllabus outcomes Targeted
performance
bands
Language, Identity and EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
Example A 20 2–6
Culture EN12-7, EN12-8
Language, Identity and EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
Example B 20 2–6
Culture EN12-7, EN12-8
Language, Identity and EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
Example C 20 2–6
Culture EN12-7, EN12-8
Section II
Question Marks Content Syllabus outcomes Targeted
performance
bands
Example A 20 Close Study of Literature − EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
2–6
Poetry EN12-7
Example B 20 Close Study of Literature − EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
2–6
Drama EN12-7
Example C 20 Close Study of Literature − EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-5,
2–6
Fiction EN12-7
Section III
Question Marks Content Syllabus outcomes Targeted
performance
bands
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example A (a) 5 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example A (b) 15 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example B (a) 12 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5, EN12-9
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example B (b) 8 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5, EN12-9
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example C (a) 10 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5, EN12-9
EN12-1, EN12-3, EN12-4,
Example C (b) 10 Craft of Writing 2–6
EN12-5, EN12-9
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